Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-17
The lyrical Mexican Dude.

He WEARS NO. FIVE LADY's HIGH-HEEL SHOES, AND
SOLOMON ALL GLORY WAS NOT ARgAYED LIKE
HIN.
From the Philadelphia Record
From this balcony OF mine one may see tn
grande danes and dOns OF Yautepec out on dress
parade, the former mostly In their carriages, AMI
the latter on horseback. The well-to-do citizen is
seldom seen on foot, and among the upper classes
in Mexico walking has become almost a lost art
1t is positive fact that because these people walk
so seldom their feet have become dwarfed and
shrunken to incredible smallness. Fancy New
Yorker or a Chicagoan In ladies' shoes, No or D
with toes tapering TO an inflnitesimal point, and
enormously high French heels set exactly under
the inStep. What can you expect in the way OF
great deeds and worthy achievements from a race
OF men whose feet are ShOd like that? YOnder goes
the dude OF Yautepec, wealthy young sugar
planter, whose ancestral acres stretch away beyond
the limits OF vision. lie bestrides prancing steed
the pace OF which is here known as 'ssingle STEP
and the gorgeous saddle and trapping5 that
cover the animal almost out Of sight must have
he holds his gold-headed whip, and how the big
diamond sparkes in the end or it! See his pearl
inlaid rev0lvers protruding from the sash of Grim
son silk, which his short, black jacket imperfectly
conceals His pantaloons, tight as two CANDLE
noids, are decorated with double rows OF genuine
half dollars up the outside seams, set ON so closely
as to overlap, and braided together with gold cord
The pointed toes OF his tiny shoes thrust into silver
stirrupS OF enormous SIZE and from his heels
feet His great sOmbrerO OF white iet has a gold
cable large as your thumb wound round md round
IL, ana us DrOdu. tnlCk DrlIn pears heavy arab
eSque OF gold. His horse Is so perfectly trained
that the rider never uses the rein, but bends
slightly to the right or left to indicate his wish
The mOzo, or groom who rides behind at re-
spectful distance, forms an admirable foil TO the
gorgeOusness OF his master, whom lie constantly
eyes with an air OF excessive pride and dignity
one who says: 'fhere he goes, Just look at
him! Amt he a daisy? His hacienda covers
1000 square miles, and that white sOmbrerO
cost 500 II 1t cost cent" The mozO
is good deal more soberly dressed than
the dude he follows, though his sombrerO
is equally broad and the coins his breeches are
madroS (6-cent pieces, instead OF half dollars.
Besides the dagger and brace OF pistols which he
sports in his cotton sash, broad, strengthening
sword, called mechate, is stuck In the saddle
sheath. This warlike rig, though scarcely needed
now, is a survival OF the time when personal de-
tense was matter OF daily necessity.
The elaborate dressing OF the upper classes
makes the simple dressing OF the lower strata OF
society more apparent by contrast The street be-
low our balcony Is rull OF peOns who as ignor-
ant, Squalid and supersttiouS they are guileess
and warm-hearted. Most or them wear a shawl of
some Sort the masculine shawl being called q "a
rape, and the feminine a rebOso. Many or the
women have piece OF black paper pasted on either
temple which looks like the label OF spool OF cot
ton. should you ask one OF them what that is for
she would reply: "For the headache Senor Were
II not for that preventive would perish Of dolor
de cdGesd."